Lot’s of hoo-ha about Aishwarya Rai’s marriage to a tree. A much debated topic now. Plus an enterprising lawyer from Patna has filed a case against the Bachhan’s for engaging in regressive practices etc. Really, this lawyer’s service to the nation in bringing to the fore this important issue for women’s rights is heartwarming : […]
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On being desi
Reading this post, I have mixed feelings. My own kids are yet small, but I’m pretty clear on the kind of knowledge I want them to have of their culture and on being desi. Because desi is what you are, born of 2 desi parents. I am Hindu but not really religious, which causes many […]
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I don’t expect Amitabh to be dancing on television. Shahrukh looks natural doing it. Kaun Banega Crorepati 2007 opened with a snazzy, Karan Johar-esque music video. I mean it really was a full song, and was pretty slickly done, although I could have done without the women in short-shorts in a program airing at prime-time. […]
Read the rest of this entry »NOIDA : Twiddling our thumbs
Last night watched Star News give wearisome details on the forensic lab in Gandhinagar which will conduct the narco-analysis. All this harping on analysis, and very little on investigation. I’m guessing that the authorities are content to sit on their bums, and twiddle their thumbs while the week-long analysis is going on. Whatever happened to […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Shame of India ?
All I hear on desi TV is about the Noida killings. On the phone with family, everyone asks if we’ve heard of the heinous matter. Yes, we have. Again and again, publicised on TV as the “Shame of India”. Really ? And is that all ? This really turns me into the Cynic-of-all-time. Why is […]
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At Youtube, a hilarious desi take on Christmas : [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBfdZHksr9Q]
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I am not too gung-ho about make-over programs but some of them I do like (like TLC’s “What not to wear”). There is also “10 years younger” which I’m not much into because the anchor of the show (who’s a young man) is pretty cruel, when he is pretending to be sympathetic. I know nicey-nice […]
Read the rest of this entry »Of Cricketiquette
Reading about the recent Pawar-shoving incident gives me the creeps. Why ? Because it reminds me that vermin like Pawar and his ilk, actually rule India, and are responsible for the “welfare” of the state. Does it bother me that a GREAT INDIAN POLITICIAN WAS (gasp) SHOVED ? No, not a whit. I’d have been […]
Read the rest of this entry »Viewing religion
Reading Outlook I am amazed at the differences between the columns of 2 Muslim women . The first, Yvonne Ridley who converted to Islam writes on “How I came to love the veil” and the second, activist Asra Nomani writes on “Beyond the veil”. It seems to me that while Ridley defends her adopted religion, […]
Read the rest of this entry »Old is as old does
There’s a Chinese fast-food restaurant near my place of work. It’s yummy (read spicy food with lot’s of chili paste), reasonably priced, and the service is quick. So I frequent it often. I see quite a few older folk in there usually. Older couples mostly. Like the one I saw yesterday. In their 70’s or […]
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